Description

Job Description

Join our Team at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA as a Physician - Assistant Director (Inpatient Psychiatry)!

Major duties include but are not limited to:

Administrative:
Provides oversight and leadership for the clinical, teaching and research functions at VAPAHCS. Responsible for the development of programs in clinical areas. Directly responsible for the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff and initiates areas of programmatic development. Responsible for establishing and maintaining high standards of excellent care in all areas. Some of these responsibilities are as follows:

• Program Development: Searches, faculty and staff utilization
• Resource Management
• Quality Assurance
• Direct supervision of faculty, staff, and performance measures: QA, reporting, performance
• Budgets: Equipment (major and minor), Clinical Services, Contracts
• Personnel evaluations, Performance Reviews, Credentialing
• Oversee teaching, clinical care, research
• Design and implementation of goal sharing initiatives

Leadership:

• Identify, assess, initiate, manage and evaluate programs to protect and improve the health of Veterans who use the VHA heath care system.
• Identifies and assesses trends as they may apply to VHA health care system and Veterans served by that system.
• Evaluates existing and related VHA health programs in order to improve those programs and/or the health care of Veterans served by the VHA health care system.
• Provides leadership within VHA and VA for promoting public health and population health programs, mission to protect and improve the health of Veterans who use the VHA health care system.

Clinical:

• Evaluation and management of patients in the setting of their assigned clinical duties.
• The incumbent may also supervise trainees including medical students and residents in the all of these settings.
• Practices safety, environmental, and/or infection control methods.
• Instructs other personnel assigned to health care team on appropriate medical activities and functions

Features and Benefits:

• Expected Salary Range from $301,714 - $320,972 per year (negotiable based on candidate's qualifications, credentials and experience)
• Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Authorized
• Work Schedule: Full-time. Schedule will be determined by supervisor
• Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
• Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
• Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
• CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
• Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
• Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

We encourage you to consider VA employment in Palo Alto, CA. We offer both a mission you can put your heart into and a home for fun, new experiences. Join a team that values a healthy home/work life balance and be rewarded by your role in keeping the promise to those who served.